Brad Pitt’s Make It Right to Build 20 LEED Platinum Homes for Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes in Montana

The Make It Right nonprofit founded by Brad Pitt is partnering with the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes of Fort Peck, Montana, to build sustainable homes, buildings and communities on their reservation. In addition to 20 LEED Platinum certified homes, the project will develop a sustainable master plan for the entire reservation, which covers thousands of acres and is home to more than 6,000 Native Americans.

Make It Right was set up in 2007 to provide housing for people in need. All Make It Right projects are LEED Platinum certified, Cradle to Cradle inspired, and designed by renowned architects in collaboration with the community involved. For the current project, architects and designers from GRAFT, Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative, Architecture for Humanity, Method Homes, and Living Homes spent four days meeting with tribal members before developing their designs.

Currently, more than 600 people are waiting for housing on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Overcrowding is a chronic problem, with multiple families commonly living together in two-bedroom homes due to lack of accommodation. The solar-powered homes will have between three and four bedrooms, two to three bathrooms and be available to tribal members whose income levels are at or below 60 percent of the Area Median Income.

“As a tribal designer working in Indian Country, I feel we have an obligation to design and build housing that is tied to the culture, community and place of Fort Peck,” says Joseph Kunkel, Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow from the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative. “We’re excited about the potential impact this project may offer the Assiniboine and Sioux community, along with provide a national precedent for Indian Housing nationwide.” Construction on the Montana project begins this year.

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Bless Brad Pitt\\\'s heart for giving back to the country that has offered him success, through his dedication to his craft. Its popular belief in this country amongst whites that American Indian people regularly collect money from the US Government, this is a total falsehood. Some native people live on some of the most God Forsaken land on this continent, far from employment options. They are living on their ancestors homeland, that\\\'s all they know. Older generations have not assimilated into the mainstream culture as more educated of the people have. God Bless You Brad Pitt, for recognizing there are citizens of our own country that are in need of a hand up.

I would love James Bay, Ontario to be able to have this opportunity. They could use this…. they really need sensible sustainable housing. the stuff sent up a year and a half ago is inferior and unsuitable to the climate they live in.

It is wonderful that Brad Pitt would invest funds in a Native American community. We were just saying today that there are a lot of people that are incredibly rich, but choose to use their money for evil instead of good. Brad & his wife, Angelina, choose to do good with theirs.